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Seriously ASCIIdoc is laughably bad. They realized that their escaping is broken and the fix is to invent a new type of escaping instead of fixing the solution that everyone uses.

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What is up with the strange fixation of people on having calls on everything.
I wrote everything I could contribute im my last mail. No, I will not join you for a quick call.

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Who would have thought, that my Epistemology courses in university would be useful for my work as a software engineer?

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Repeat after me:
Not
Everything
Is
A
Use case

Doing 5 things in a row to reproduce a bug, which have no logical connection and a user might only do by chance, this is not a use case.
#workwork

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What blowup factor between code and documentation does your work project have?
(i.e. how many lines of documentation do you generate per line of code?)
#workwork

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We have reached the point, where I miss emoji reactions on sites which don't have them.
Like why can't I ♥️ this Jira ticket?

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"verification only features" - aka all of the project overhead, without any implementation.

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It is fascinating to hear people from different companies, working in different areas, completely fail to talk to each other.

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Person A: "I won't be able to join the call tomorrow" - Person B: "then it will be just Person C, me and a candle"

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What would you answer, when your customer, who ordered a Linux based system asks you, if the system they are being delivered is POSIX compliant?
(Yes, without any further qualifiers!)

mxk, to random
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"machen wir eine Testfahrt?" -
"Ich hab da noch einen Bug, den man nur auf der Timmelsjoch Hochalpenstraße testen kann!"

mxk, to random German
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"nicht alles ist ist ein Anwendungsfall für KI, manchmal ist ein Grep vielleicht auch besser!"
#workwork

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It's 8:20 in the morning and we have already reached the point, where a desperate manager switches to his native language, since he is incapable of expressing his intentions in English.

Drinking Pouring GIF

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OH "I need to fix SELinux issues in order to relax"

mxk, to random German
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Absurdes Managementsprech des Tages: "da müssen wir den $Kollegen noch mit einloopen"

mxk, to random
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Business language for your problem isn't relevant:
"I have other appointments which I would prioritize"

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When you are hosting a call, always just say "this feature" "that bug" and rely on people reading your screen share to be able to follow you.
Never actually mention directly what you are talking about, nobody would need to stare at your screen otherwise!

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Project management is a weapon, if you are just holding it sufficiently wrong.
#workwork

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0 days, since I had to remind one of our suppliers, that one of the troubling components is actually being supplied by them and it's name even contains their company name 😁
#workwork

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Another office day, hopefully our IT-Support finds out, why my new laptop refuses to speak anything other than USB over its USB-C connections.

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🥳 my new laptop managed to build a complete AOSP from scratch in 1,5h - that's rather impressive!

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When your commit passes the flaky check-in gate without any retries

Lego Batman GIF

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"C++ has no concept of a stack or a heap" -
Another item for the list of reasons, why we can't have nice things.

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Linux has too many types of uids.

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My little Unix, relative paths are magic.

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